(1) The Federal Government shall reimburse the Laender, likewise for their municipali-ties (associations of municipalities), the necessary expenditure arising from the election.
(2) The costs incurred for posting the voter’s notifications and postal ballot documents as well as expenses for the members of the electoral boards shall be reimbursed by the Länder on a separate statement basis. Each Land shall reimburse an appropriate share of these costs if Land, local government and Bundestag elections are held at the same time.
(3) The remaining costs shall be reimbursed by the payment of a fixed sum per person eligible to vote. It shall be 0.45 Euro for municipalities with up to 100,000 persons eligi-ble to vote and 0.70 Euro for municipalities with more than 100,000 persons eligible to vote. Any adaptations of the fixed sum specified in the second sentence needed to take account of the development in prices shall be stipulated by the Federal Ministry of the Interior by means of statutory instrument and with the approval of the Bundesrat, this ruling applying to an election held after 1 January 2005 at the earliest.*)
(4) The Federal Government shall reimburse the Associations of the Blind who have expressed their willingness to produce ballot paper templates for the necessary expendi-ture arising from the production and distribution of the ballot paper templates.
*) In accordance with statutory instrument of 29 September 2009 (Federal Law Gazette I p. 3220), the fixed sums shall be set at 0.48 Euro (up from 0.45 Euro) und 0.74 Euro (up from 0.70 Euro) as of 1 January 2009.
